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It seems there is a fair amount of devs willing to do this and from what I can see a fair amount of people who would invest in projects.

Wouldn't it make sense to pool a small amount of $2-5k investments from a number of individuals who all agree on a particular project and taking it to launch. Not speaking about crowd-funding/kickstarter. There's clearly a lot of very smart people who can build shit, and a small amount of folks willing to invest. Why not just pool everything together. Spread the risk, but combine the talents of more people.

If this was answered, I can't find it.

- At $5k / 50%, who is covering the costs of creating a separate entity (LLC formation)?

- What happens in the event that the project is completed in time, but the addl $3k spent to acquire enough customers doesn't yield any positive results?

- Who owns the IP in case after all is said and done, it falls into a dead pool? IP in code that didn't survive as a startup is still valuable.

- How many side-projects are you funding and are you expected to be directly involved in each one?

Some people look at getting paid $5k to complete a side project as plus. I guess to some it is. Taking 2 months to build means you were paid $2.5k per month (around $15 per hour) assuming 40hr work weeks.

Customer acquisition is the most time consuming, costly and difficult part of any startup. Is $3k really realistic to determine if the market is there?

Are there known user agents that you can identify as coming from the scrapers? If so, you either block that way and not worry about IP addresses or choose to disable Google Analytics on those requests so it doesn't skew GA data.

This is confusing. Are you concerned that blacks aren't doing what you think they should be doing or upset that you are not getting coverage for your site?

Since this is HN and you're clearly looking for feedback...

Don't sell $10 stickers with no clear value. Your value vs the perceived value of the consumer appears to be very different. Be professional and get a separate PayPal acct that doesn't say gamerholic.com. No wonder your aren't getting press. The site is littered with misspellings, bad grammar (it's addict" not "attict") and a checkout which seems scammy.

The example search is clearly staged. "Officer Jason White" reviewed by an American Black?

Is the site a tool to track racial profiling or a yelp for the "down and out" homeless? Seems to two completely separate social issues.

Finally it's important to know who you are dealing with as a consumer. I wouldn't give money to a company called Ehustla, LLC.

Thats the tricky part. On the twitter photosharing site (separate project) that I built and maintain, its a constant battle to flag content so that it stays family friendly for advertisers. For flagged media, I show house ads.

The numbers are monthly and its based on twitter

I run a site that generates 300m pvs on mobile web, 100m pvs on desktop with 2.7m uniques every month (I believe this is actually substantially higher but not fully tracked in Google Analytics for some reason).

Our policy is 50% upfront before any concept meetings even begin and 50% upon completion before we deliver and launch their site. We never do Net terms anymore in the 15 years building web and mobile apps. We sometimes get the "accounting only pays net 15 or 30". Our answer to that is to invoice the balance and schedule delivery when the check arrives. If you are upfront with your terms, they will typically follow your standard. In our experience we had 1-2 clients in the beginning that did net 30 which turned into 60. We were small and cash flow was tight so it meant we needed to float expenses. No more.

I've been down that road a number of times. And I've been lucky to find myself in situations that allowed me to pull through with out selling my stuff. If you're good at iOS and Android development, I may have some short terms (few days) projects.

I work on side projects (my own and others) for a number of different reasons. But primarily to see how I can solve problems. Working on non-time critical projects means you can get a bit more creative and explore a lot of different options to see which work the best rather than the quickest to integrate. Some of the side projects I work on add a little extra rev every month, some don't. The only side project that consumed a good deal of my time is the one that in fact doesn't make much money (I probably lose every month) but its the one with the largest user base and its the one that is more of a love rather than anything else.

The easiest thing to do is to sketch it on a piece of paper and show it to someone. Thats perhaps one of the most basic ways to validate a concept. I've read some stories where an entire app was sketched on paper and demonstrated to other people by moving around the pieces of paper. If people can easily grasp the idea, find people to partner with. There are a lot of great developers willing to contribute to a project if they see value. However, you will need to contribute something as well as an idea is worth $0. But if you have some talent (biz dev, design, etc.) that would be your contribution to it and it won't cost anything.

Its much harder to execute an idea that has no proven business model. Much easier to see what the competition is doing, and do it better. Photo sharing is a crowded field, for example, but its one that some apps accelerate in growth while others remain stagnant. Just do it better.

"The cake is a lie."

I'm not quite sure I would want to tell my younger self anything that may inevitably change the outcome of the future. We all knows what happens when people travel back in time, the future gets all screwed up. But if there was one thing, perhaps to not look for validation in what you're doing from other people who don't do what you do.

I actually thought the Post A Response button was locked since I tried to click it and nothing happened.

A lot of people can't discuss things in a very matter of fact nature.

1. I think its actually interesting. Anonymous feedback/answers, outside of the ones that may be given because its anonymous and people tend to just BS sometimes, tend to be more honest.

3. Design needs to be improved badly. A site shouldn't have ads when it launches, even if it needs to generate revenue. Launching a site with ads, especially Adwords is a negative in my opinion. Go with a slick design, no ads and build a community first.

4. Any time a person can be anonymous, you will get feedback that may be wrong and/or harmful. This is, of course, the internet and there is a subset of people who enjoy being the bad guy.

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The link: http://oneshar.es

We've have some big pitfalls in the past when outsourcing relatively minor components of much larger projects to India and Eastern Europe. Even with the best technical documents, results have varied from ok to simply bad coding practices. With such a low hourly rate, the goal is to code and deliver as fast as possible. We've had good experiences and bad. You're mileage may vary.

I try and take an information break a few times a week where I'll let a day or 2 go by in which I don't check any tech news. Information is dripped fed to people nowadays anyway. So its always great to see that every new post in my reader is something completely new.

Comfy + working a typical 9-to-5 => More Stresses + Running own company + more personal time

A US check being cashed in the UK or most places, can take a few weeks. We had an office in West London, and the best way we found to pay our European team was by bank wire. You may want to look into Ruesch International (now known as Travelex Business). Might also be able to use them for other Sweden/Germany/France and Russia as well.

Take a deep breath. Realize that your startup will consume you so look to surround yourself with 1) people that you can get advice from 2) people who you can use for feedback and 3) if it requires more than just yourself, so to find a team to work with.

Jumping from something stable into the unknown is probably the hardest in my opinion. The road ahead is going to at times seem unclear, just remember to put together a plan of being able to accomplish something, anything towards bringing your idea to reality.

The population percentages of race have absolutely no correlation to the percentages of startup founders accepted by YC or that would potentially be accepted by YC. With YC only funding 200 or so startups, that sample is too low to quantify any conclusions.

Find a different lane to be in with your product. When we launched our app, the only players in that space were the big ones. Since launching it, we've been focusing more on the factors which makes us different than the same. But don't get persuaded by competition as it helps to see what others are doing wrong, to do it better.